Re: [racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

2012-04-02 Thread Robby Findler
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Jordan Johnson j...@fellowhuman.com wrote: On Mar 13, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Do you get a stacktrace with the error? No -- since errors are being caught by the handin server, I assume -- but I've narrowed it down a bit by now and can offer

Re: [racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

2012-03-14 Thread Jordan Johnson
On Mar 13, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Robby Findler wrote: Do you get a stacktrace with the error? No -- since errors are being caught by the handin server, I assume -- but I've narrowed it down a bit by now and can offer some more specifics: In (parameterize ([sandbox-namespace-specs

[racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

2012-03-13 Thread Jordan Johnson
Hi all, I'm trying to write a checker script for the handin server (which is running on my Mac), and when i try handing an assignment in to it, I am getting the error that read access to my preferences file is denied: ERROR: file-or-directory-modify-seconds: 'read' access denied for

Re: [racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

2012-03-13 Thread Eric Hanchrow
I've seen this occasionally too from rudybot; I'll see if I can get a stacktrace next time it happens (doubtful but you never know). On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: Do you get a stacktrace with the error? Robby On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:06

Re: [racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

2012-03-13 Thread Robby Findler
Yeah, I think it would help a lot to see the call to preferences:* and then we can figure out either how to eliminate it or to understand why it can't easily be eliminated and thus access should be granted or the library avoided or something else. Robby On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Eric

Re: [racket] Sandbox needs to access preferences? Why?

2012-03-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
6 hours ago, Jordan Johnson wrote: Can you identify what may be triggering the attempt to read preferences, and how I can either avoid it or grant appropriate read permissions? Thanks... You can grant permissions with `sandbox-path-permissions' -- but note that this could be a security hole